Whit by Iain Banks
A little knowledge can be a very dangerous thing...Innocent in the ways of the world, an ingenue when it comes to pop and fashion, the Elect of God of a small but committed Stirlingshire religious cult: Isis Whit is no ordinary teenager. When her cousin Morag - Guest of Honour at the Luskentyrian's four-yearly Festival of Love - disappears after renouncing her faith, Isis is marked out to venture among the Unsaved and bring the apostate back into the fold. But the road to Babylondon (as Sister Angela puts it) is a treacherous one, particularly when Isis discovers that Morag appears to have embraced the ways of the Unsaved with spectacular abandon...Truth and falsehood; kinship and betrayal; 'herbal' cigarettes and compact discs - Whit is an exploration of the techno-ridden barrenness of modern Britain from a unique perspective.
Fierce contemporaneity, an acrobatic imagination, social comment, sardonic wit..the peculiar sub-culture of cult religion is a natural for Banks, and Luskentyrianism is a fine creation THE TIMES One of the most relentlessly voyaging imaginations around SCOTSMAN Entertaining...comically inspired GUARDIAN Banks's remarkable juggling act, alternating his mainstream novels with his widly imaginative science fiction fantasies, is notable most of all for the continuting growth and assurance he displays in any genre... [WHIT is a] delicious satire on both the re PUBLISHING NEWS
Iain Banks came to widespread and controversial public notice with the publication of his first novel, THE WASP FACTORY, in 1984. He has since gained widespread popular and critical acclaim with further works of fiction and, as Iain M Banks, science fiction.
| SKU | CIN0349107688G |
| ISBN 13 | 9780349107684 |
| ISBN 10 | 0349107688 |
| Title | Whit |
| Author | Iain Banks |
| Condition | Good |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Year published | 1996-09-12 |
| Number of pages | 464 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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